rousseau
\ʁu.so\
The verdict
“rousseau” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,301. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,301
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui a les cheveux et le poil roux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rousseau · rousseau · French
rousseau · rank #8,301 · 8 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,301
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH risquer
Nearest frequency peer: risquer (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « rousseau »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- renforce
renforce
91,704 corpus weight
- retient
retient
91,703 corpus weight
- Rick
Rick
91,702 corpus weight
- risquer
risquer
91,701 corpus weight
- rousseau
rousseau
91,700 corpus weight
- révélations
révélations
91,697 corpus weight
What this shows « rousseau » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rousseau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁu.so\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #8,301 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rousseau »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around rousseau (IPA \ʁu.so\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,301 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for rousseau, with forms such as "orusseau", "rosuseau", and "rouseau". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "Roussel", "Rousset", "rousses", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is rousseau, spelled R-O-U-S-S-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Personne qui a les cheveux et le poil roux.
- 2Daurade rose (poisson).
- 3Rotengle (poisson).
- 4Un des noms locaux du canard chipeau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rousseau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pierrot était son fils aîné, qu’elle aimait plus que tous les autres, parce qu’il était un peu rousseau et qu’elle était un peu rousse.
Un petit rousseau tient la bride du cheval. C’est le petit-fils.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- orusseau
- rosuseau
- rouseau
- rousesau
- roussaeu
- rousseua
- rrousseau
- ruosseau
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rousseau - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "rousseau", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).